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On Wednesday morning, news came that the British Medicines Agency had approved the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine candidate for use in the UK.
Lander’s health minister says the UK will have 800,000 doses of the vaccine ready next week.
Then the mass vaccination begins.
Those who will receive the doses first are the elderly, those living in nursing homes and health personnel.
– It is a clinically safe vaccine. So this is very good news, Matt Hancoc tells The Guardian.
Initially, 50 hospitals are ready to receive the vaccine, at the same time that special vaccination centers are being built. Even some pharmacies and GPs will have access to the virus, as long as they can
In addition, it says that it will be “three methods of delivery”. The first is the hospitals.
– And vaccination centers, which will be large centers where people can go to get vaccinated. They are preparing now. There will also be a community distribution, which includes GPs and pharmacies.
The vaccine will also be available in some pharmacies and
Vaccine researcher Matti Sällberg believes that the EU may also give the go ahead soon.
– It is a good omen, because I think that the different authorities see this in a fairly similar way.
Vaccine Coordinator: “Extra Hope”
Sweden’s vaccine coordinator Richard Bergström is on the same path.
– Now we have received a first approval and it gives more hope that the EU will also approve this vaccine, he tells TT.
But an approval in the EU can take a few weeks, even if it could take place before the turn of the year, according to Bergström:
– It is possible that this vaccine is approved by the European Commission before the turn of the year, either before Christmas or during the week.
The Investigator: “Pearl Ribbon of Approvals”
The European Medicines Agency has not yet approved any vaccine against covid-19. Yesterday it was announced that Astra Zeneca has already started producing its vaccine, to be ready to deliver “hundreds of millions of doses in January”.
Modern and Astra Zeneca are closer to getting approval, believes vaccine researcher Matti Sällberg.
– Now I think there will be a series of approvals, he says.
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